C Wang wrote:
> James:
> We haven't shipped ImageMagick on Solaris,
Well it's on my system. I think it was integrated with GNOME back in
'06? [LSARC/2006/202 GNOME 2.14] perhaps?
$ uname -a
SunOS harley 5.11 snv_79a i86pc i386 i86pc
$ pkginfo -l SUNWimagick
PKGINST: SUNWimagick
NAME: ImageMagick - Image Manipulation Utilities and Libraries
DESC: ImageMagick - Image Manipulation Utilities and Libraries 6.3.4
But it's probably not important if ImageMagick & gqview do different things.
> Gimp is a image editor tool,
> it contains many image processing operations and filter, and can be used
> to create special effect image. eog is a simple image viewer, the
> advantage of eog is the launch speed, so we associate most of image
> format with it to ensure better user experience, but it lack of the
> ability to organize the image.
>
> gqview and gthumb are similar applications, I'll call them image
> organizer. With these applications, user can easily organize and
> management there images, they generally only have limited image
> processing operation available. For my opinion, gqview offers better UI
> than gthumb, but it really depends on users preference. I don't think we
> are going to replace gthumb with gqview but keep them together to give
> users more choices.
>
OK, thanks.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Chris
>
> James Gates
>
>> Where does this tool fit amongst all the other image viewers/editors
>> that are already available in OpenSolaris (e.g. ImageMagick, eog,
>> gthumb & gimp)? What does gqview have that none of the others provide?
>> Are any of the others made obsolete by the addition of gqview?
